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Free tickets for UCLA's All-Staff Picnic are available for pickup through Aug. 4.

Emily Scivoletto will join the UCLA School of Law as dean of students on Aug. 14, coming from the University of San Diego School of Law.

Help make this year's UCLA All-Staff Picnic fun for your fellow Bruins — and add to your own enjoyment while you're at it — by serving a quick shift as a volunteer.

The complex task of introducing 9,000 incoming freshmen and transfer students to UCLA's campus and culture is a yearlong job for Roxanne Neal and her staff.

Back by popular demand after sold-out houses last summer, the Oscar Wilde classic, “Lady Windermere’s Fan,” will be performed at UCLA’s William Andrews Clark Memorial Library in five performances by the Chalk Repertory Theater, July 25-August 2.

Victoria Steele, who served for close to nine years as head of UCLA Library Special Collections before taking a post at the New York Public Library, will return to UCLA in August as interim head librarian of the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

UCLA’s Film and Television Archive will be hosting a Hollywood hero on July 25: Norma Barzman, a screenwriter who fled to France when she was blacklisted during the Red Scare of the 1940s and 1950s.

UCLA’s Hammer Museum and KCRW are teaming up to present Made in L.A. Music, four nights of free, live, Los Angeles-based music in the museum courtyard over four weeks.

The UCLA Library system has established new unified loan periods to make it easier for UCLA and UC faculty, staff and students to manage items checked out from the Library’s circulating collections.

Clarissa Byrd brings comfort and understanding to children who are experiencing stress or trauma in the hospital’s emergency department.

This weekend marks the launch at UCLA's Billy Hammer Theater of “Cruzamentos: Contemporary Brazilian Documentary,” a month-long pageant of weekend showings of Brazilian film.

When confronted with a difficult job, Sam Houston Huffman always looks for a better way. As a facilities mechanic working in UCLA residence halls, he's been able to devise new ways to make costly, time-consuming repairs easier, cheaper and safer to complete.

Water researchers from UCLA, the Natural History Museum and elsewhere are helping the region understand issues, history and possible solutions related to the drought. A discussion series featuring panels of experts begins July 10.

The Henry J. Bruman Summer Chamber Music Festival, an annual event presented by the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies, features four free concerts this year.

On Thursday, July 10 at the UCLA Hammer Museum, The Do-Over and Innovative Leisure present De Lux, The Do-Over mystery guest DJs and KCRW DJ Mathieu Schreyer.

Jackie Reynolds, chief information officer at UCLA Anderson School of Management, has received the 2014 Excellence in Leadership (EXCEL) Award.

UCLA Fowler Museum's KidsMUSE summer camp, 'Dig It,' invites children to explore nature, ecology, art and conservation.

The mood on campus changes over the summer. It's hard to put it into words, so let's try it with photos.

The University of California wants to know what you think about your university-sponsored medical plan. UC Human Resources has launched its annual medical plan satisfaction survey and invites feedback from all faculty, staff and retirees enrolled in a ...

Amjad Ezzour, a student affairs officer in the Fully Employed MBA Program at UCLA Anderson School of Management, received the 2014 Abraham Ackerman Staff Excellence Award.

Three films by photographic and video artist Judy Fiskin will screen at the Billy Wilder Theater on Tuesday, July 1, 7:30 p.m., followed by a Q&A with the artist.

Longtime Bruins Robert Naples, Gay Macdonald and David Miller have a combined total of 62 years filling important roles in the evolution of our campus.

Heather Briston has been appointed university archivist in the UCLA Library. UCLA’s University Archives has systematically documented campus history, decision-making processes and cultural history since 1948.

Stan Paul, undergraduate advisor for the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, has commuted by vanpool from Riverside County since 2001. He takes photos along the way.

Guided mindfulness meditations by Diana Winston, director of Mindfulness Education at UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center, are now available for television viewing by patients, visitors and staff at UCLA hospitals and medical clinics in Westwood.